Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

To Arrange Twelve Cards in Rows in such a manner that they will Count Four in every Direction 58 To Place the Aces and Court Cards in Four Rows, in such a manner that neither Horizontally nor Perpendicularly shall there be in either Row two Cards alike, either in Suit or Value 58 The Congress of Court Cards 59 CHAPTER IV. TRICKS INVOLVING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND, OR THE USE OF SPECIALLY PREPARED CARDS. The “Long Card” 60 Biseauté or Tapering Cards 60 Tricks Performed by the Aid of a Long Card, or biseauté Pack-- A Card having been Chosen and Returned, and the Pack Shuffled, to produce the Chosen Card instantly in various ways 62 To Cut at the Chosen Card 62 To Let all the Cards fall, save the One Chosen 62 To Pick out the Card, the Pack being placed in a Person’s Pocket 62 To Fling the Pack in the Air, and Catch the Chosen Card 63 To Change a Card drawn hap-hazard to the Chosen Card 63 To Divide the Pack into several Packets on the Table, allowing the Company to stop you at any Moment, and to cause the Top Card of the Heap last made to Change into the Chosen Card 65 To Teach the Company a Trick which they Learn without Difficulty; then to allow them to Succeed or cause them to Fail at your Pleasure 65 To Distinguish the Court Cards by Touch 69 To Name any Number of Cards in Succession without Seeing Them 70